Engineering Properties of Rocks

As a single source for the unique correlations of rock properties, this book explores the use of typical values or empirical correlations of similar rocks to estimate their specific parameters, including strength, deformability, permeability, and other traits

Lianyang Zhang (Author)

9780128028339, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 5 September 2016

394 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.44 kg

More often than not, it is difficult or even impossible to obtain directly the specific rock parameters of interest using in situ methods. The procedures for measuring most rock properties are also time consuming and expensive. Engineering Properties of Rocks, Second Edition, explores the use of typical values and/or empirical correlations of similar rocks to determine the specific parameters needed. The book is based on the author's extensive experience and offers a single source of information for the evaluation of rock properties. It systematically describes the classification and characterization of intact rock, rock discontinuities, and rock masses, and presents the various indirect methods for estimating the deformability, strength, and permeability of these components as well as the in situ rock stresses.

1. Introduction2. In situ stresses3. Intact rock4. Rock discontinuities5. Rock masses6. Deformability7. Strength8. Permeability

Subject Areas: Geochemistry [RBGK], Geology & the lithosphere [RBG]